IÑAKI LOPEZ DE LUZURIAGA.
Abstract:
The totem of a historic Spanish unity crumbles in the subject addressed in this article by its author: the resolution passed by the General Assembly of Gipuzkoa to create a Republic of Gipuzkoa, out of Spain. Gipuzkoa is one of the seven constituent territories of the Basque Country, showing the highest ratio of Basque speakers and...
MIKEL URKOLA ELEIZEGI.
Abstract:
In this article, Basque university professor and author of a number of books Mikel Urkola, accuses the Spanish State of neither complying with nor respecting some international treaties it has signed. In particular, in 1977 it ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of the UN (1966) and in 1978, introduced through Articles 10 and...
Can a minority language be normalized when it is impossible to watch movies or TV series in that language? Can a television that does not broadcast fiction say that it covers all the spaces - formal and informal - necessary for the normalization of Basque? That is, can you say that it is an integral television channel?
We noted great...
Basque society, in general, does not esteem submissive postures (even less when they are the result of an unfair situation) and on numerous occasions has shown that it prefers insubmission, as when insubmission to Spanish military service was encouraged in the past. Nor do we like discriminatory attitudes. However at linguistic level, Basque speakers are discriminated against and we...
Abstract:
Spanish election is near, so in this EDITORIAL we seize the opportunity to make clear our position in this respect. We do so because different sections of our nation show divergent views on the position Basque nationalist parties should take in the face of the Spanish elections; some nationalists are not happy with the idea of participating in the...
Diarmuid Breatnach
Irish writer
The English occupation of Ireland made a determined effort to eradicate the Irish language from Ireland and in 1366 promulgated the Statutes of Kilkenny to forbid “the degenerate English” (colonists) “who are become more Irish than the Irish themselves” from speaking Irish, dressing in Irish style, playing Irish games, etc. Outside of the city areas, the laws...
Euskal Herria, as a nation, is sick. In recent years it has been suffering, in our opinion, a severe process of denationalization, with a strong loss of national consciousness. Basque nationalism, in general, has not correctly diagnosed the evil, and consequently the symptoms of the disease are increasingly evident: in this globalized world our collective identity is being lost...
XABIER LAKARRA BEROITZ.
Abstract:
Our collaborator Xabier Lakarra raises here the issue of two opposing linguistic models, Estonia and Ireland, or as he puts it, a model (Estonia) and an anti-model (Ireland).
Estonia gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. At that moment, a third of the population spoke Russian, with no command of Estonian. However, that did not stop the...
The Article written by Hasier Arraiz in BERRIA on July 20 has received many answers (Pako Sudupe, Xabier Muguruza….) and NAZIOGINTZA also wishes to give our opinion. Although in his article Arraiz mentions various ideas, we will focus on what he affirms regarding identity, although the use of the term “disloyal” does not seem appropriate to us either.
It seems...
